RFR (XS): 8068540 - [TESTBUG] Exclude failing nightly tests

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

We are trying to get rid of all known failures so unless the test can be 
modified to run only on the platforms that support NMT (which is my preferred 
option), I think it is better to exclude the tests than to let them fail on some 
platforms on a regular basis.
/Jesper


David Holmes skrev den 7/1/15 02:18:
> On 7/01/2015 9:40 AM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
>> Hi Coleen and George,
>>
>> @Coleen: They fail because one of our internal platforms doesn't support the
>> full feature set of NMT.
>
> Excluding them completely reduces test coverage. We do we need to exclude them?
> They simply turn up as known failures (of which there are dozens).
>
> ??
>
> David
>
>
>> @George: The change looks good.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of
>> Coleen Phillimore
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 3:53 PM
>> To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: RFR (XS): 8068540 - [TESTBUG] Exclude failing nightly tests
>>
>>
>> Why are these tests failing?  The bug is not helpful.
>> Thanks,
>> Coleen
>>
>> On 1/6/15, 3:49 PM, George Triantafillou wrote:
>>> Please review this small fix for JDK-8068540.  The tests were modified
>>> with the "@ignore" jtreg tag to exclude them from nightly testing.
>>>
>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068540
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gtriantafill/8068540/webrev.00/
>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Egtriantafill/8068540/webrev.00/>
>>>
>>> The fix was tested locally on Linux with jtreg and the JPRT hotspot
>>> testset.
>>>
>>> -George
>>
>>